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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1891

85 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 5

Cyclone in South Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 27

A destructive cyclone occurred on Friday afternoon in the hundreds of Tickera and Kadina. It travelled for some time in a north-easterly direction, and was about three miles…

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Severe Gales on the British Coast. London, December 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 18

Fierce south-westerly gales are raging on the coasts of Ireland and England. The French barque Lenore has been wrecked at Mumble’s Head, on the north Bide of the…

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Severe Gale at Hons Kong. London, December 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 18

A severe gale raged at Hong Kong on the 4th inst., causing much damage. Hundreds of Chinese boats were sunk during the storm, and the loss of life was very great…

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Cyclone on the South American Coast. London, December 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 18

Advices have been received that a circus company, numbering 25 persons, have been drowned during a cyclone on the coast of South America…

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Under Sentence in Norfolk Island: Authentic Records. No 2. the Cyclone

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 December 1891 · page 2

In the previous convict sketch it has already been dated that the morning on which Townshend was ordered to undergo his punishment was a peculiarly gloomy and…

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